page_title: Ayelet Carmi
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Ayelet Carmi / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: mural by Ayelet Carmi at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
context_page_description: Ayelet Carmi, is an Israeli painter and installation artist.
context_section_description: Carmi was born in 1967 in Kibbutz Beit HaShita. 
  She is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Her works are characterized by feminine figures in mythological settings, organic hybrids and evocative machinery. Based in traditional painterly technique, her works offer a complex take on the representational style of the Western tradition while opening up to a world of imaginary figments and metamorphoses.
  Galia Bar Or, the director and curator of The Museum of Art in Ein Harod, considers Carmi as:
  “the inventor of a new genre of painting all her own. Cleverly escaping the entrapments of traditional painting, her work engages in a deep and thoughtful dialogue with relational depth patterns, its highly sensitized nervous system producing art that is nuanced, lightweight and fragmentary.
  […] Boundless and deeply personal, Carmi's version of [the myth of the artist] is channeled through the female nudes that dominate her work, women whose brushstrokes continuously recreate a world in painting – recreating but never appropriating. Essentially open-ended, her works come together and unravel as they echo a painterly realm suffused with architecture, politics, rites, theatrical sets, imagery and identities."
  Carmi's pieces in two-dimensional media often consist of "an overlay of thin, see-through papers [...] It appears as though they are sculptures forced into two dimensions, as if trying to break the limits of their own form."
  Recently, she has been developing new work in video and performance in collaboration with artist Meirav Heiman.
  Carmi holds teaching positions at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts in Beit Berl College and The Tel Aviv Museum's Meyerhoff Art Education Center.
caption: "The Maccabiah", mural in the exhibition "On the Banks of the Yarkon", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2005
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